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Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Gulf Grows in Black-White Views of U.S. Justice System Bias

Author:     FRANK NEWPORT
Source:     The Gallup Organization
Publication Date:     22-Jul-13
 Link: Gulf Grows in Black-White Views of U.S. Justice System Bias
Stephan:   This is the result of the creation of the American Gulag, the privatization of prisons and schools, and the war on drugs. All of the companies, and agencies involved in these depraved activities make their ricebowl through a deliberate institutionalized social policy of using the poor first, and Black young men by preference, as valves to tap into the public money trough. This whole structure is based on racist principles, as the fully documented social outcomes make irrefutably clear.

PRINCETON, NJ — While 68% of blacks say the American justice system is biased against blacks, 25% of whites agree. Blacks’ attitudes about the justice system have remained virtually constant over the past 20 years, but whites have become less likely to perceive bias.

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The new results are based on interviews with 2,541 Americans, including 1,841 non-Hispanic whites and 230 non-Hispanic blacks, conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking July 16-21, after the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial was handed down. Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the shooting death of a young black man, Trayvon Martin.

The Gallup data reveal a continuing divide by race in views of the fairness of the American justice system. This current divergence by race in views of bias in the justice system is broadly similar to attitudes measured in Gallup surveys conducted in 1993 and in 2008, although the percentage of white Americans who say the justice system is biased has dropped by eight percentage points over that time, while the percentage of blacks has stayed constant.

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